Good Is Good: 10 Reasons Men Should Cook

Tom Matlack is the former CFO of the Providence Journal and is the founder of The Good Men Project, a non-profit charitable corporation based in Rhode Island and dedicated to helping organizations that provide educational, social, financial, and legal support to men and boys at risk.

It started almost 15 years ago now when I had two little kids for long stretches on my own. I had to cook food they would eat. I drew on the skills instilled in me as a teenager when my mom made each of us cook dinner one night a week.

I invented some of my own recipes (unhealthy but good) like cooking bacon and then cooking French toast right in the grease, topping it off with cinnamon sugar. All before nursery school.

Over the years, I have refined my cooking skills and still do a lot of shopping and cooking even after being remarried now for almost a decade.

Of course a good man doesn’t need to cook, but here are 10 things to consider as a man with a stove:

1. Shopping is a really fun thing to do with kids. It also insures you get the stuff you really want.